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J. O. OVOLTON.

Button. No. 236,395. Patented Jan. 4,1881.

N. PEIERS, FHOTGLITHOGHAPHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITE JOSIAH C. COLTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEWELL BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 236,395, dated January 4, 1881.

Application filed October 25,1880. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSIAH G. GOLTON, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Springfield, county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Compound Buttons, of which the tollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of compound buttons from any suitable hard ma- 1o terials or metals, or both combined; and the object thereof is to provide novel means for constructing the several parts of said buttons with a view to facilitating the assembling of the same into complete buttons, and to provide improved means for producing buttons made from dltl'erentmaterials united in one button with a view to producing novel and durable goods and new and beautiful efi'ects.

I attain the above-named objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 9 and 10 are sectional views of a complete button constructed according to my invention, Fig. 10 being an enlarged view thereof. Figs. 1, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are different views of the button'center; and Figs. 2, 4, 6, S are views of the button ring or base, the details of all of which will be explained farther on.

0 The essential novelty of this invention consists in the peculiar construction of the two parts forming the button-that is to say, the central portion, a, and the base-ring 0-whereby said two parts can be sprung together after each part is made, but cannot be disunited without breaking one or the other of the parts, and whereby, when the portion a is made from such or similar material to vegetable ivory, the smaller pieces thereof may be profitably 4o utilized, and when united with a base-ring of contrasting color a button having a line appearance is produced.

The construction provided for by this invention provides, among many others, for the 5 manufacture of buttons at a very small cost,

having vegetable-ivory centers at and hardrubber base-rings 0, or base-rings made from eborene or other similar plastic material which is somewhat elastic when cold, and which, as

well as the said ivory, may be finished in such a great variety of fancy colors as to provide an almost unlimited field for fine ornamental fancy effects. Furthermore, buttons may be made with said "egetable-ivory or with plasticmaterial centers and with metallic base-rin gs, 5 finished in black, gilt, or silver; also, metal in a variety of colors and forms may be used for making both centers and base-rings, and assembled together, making an entirely metallic button from said two pieces, a and o. I construct the central portion of these buttons, at,

in the forms shown in the drawings, having the shank portion thereof provided wit-h an annular groove, 6, formed around it just below its top, or with a projecting ring, 0, around it, as in Fig. 11, and pierce'said shank transversely,

as in Figs. 7 and 10, to provide for sewing the button to garments, or vertically, as in Fig. 3. The under side of the center part, a, is made so that when brought against the face of the base-ring c it will bear only at or near its periphery, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10.

The base-ring c is constructed in the general form shown in the drawings; but in regard to its upper concave face and the hole through it, it must be made ofa proper diameter to receive the center, a, within its outer beaded rim, and pierced with a hole a trifle smaller than the diameter of the shank just below the groove 0 or of the ring 6. V\ hen said two parts, a and 0, have been made as aforesaid, they are united to form any of the varieties above named by firmly pressing the base-ring 0 onto the shank of the center portion, a, forcing its center up against the under side of the former, and the base being elastic, it will be slightly deflected around the shank, just enough to permit of springing its center high enough to carry it up opposite and into the groove 6, where it will spring into the latter, 0

and so become locked to the shank of said central part, a. The two parts of the button are now in the relative positions shown in Figs. 9 and 10. The outer edge of part a bears against the concave face of the base- 5 ring 0, near the outer edge of the latter, and the edge of the hole in the base-ring bears down upon the lower portion of the groove 6 in the shank. Thus the elastic nature of said An improved button consisting of the cen- IO base-ring is made to contribute to the firm retra'l portion, a, having the groove 6 around its tention of part to part. shank, and of the elastic base-ring 0, both It will be seen that any attempt to separate adapted to be secured one to the other, sub- 5 the base-ring from the center a results in stantially as set forth.

forcing the edge thereof more deeply into JOSIAH O. COLTON. groove 6, and said base will break before it Witnesses: will slip off from the shank. H. A. OHAPIN,

What I claim as my invention is- J. D. GARFIELD. 

